The Press: Watch on the Vineyard

Every salaried newsman, they say, dreams of some day buying his own
little newspaper. For New York Times Columnist James Reston, the dream
has come true. Last week he announced that he had purchased the
Vineyard Gazette (average circ. 5,900), the 122-year-old weekly that
serves the resort island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. If Reston ever
gives up his Washington beat to ruminate for the Gazette, it will not
be all that much of a comedown. For the Gazette is one of the most
colorful and quoted of U.S. weeklies.